Dragonstone Castle
Isle of Dragonstone, Blackwater Bay
The Crownlands, Westeros
Year 300 AC
The ancestral seat of House Targaryen stood as an impressive fortress with weird motifs such as dragon-shaped gargoyles. It served as home to Aegon the Conqueror, his sister-wives Rhaenys and Visenya, and their small army before the Conquest.
After the conquest, it became a hereditary seat for the heir of House Targaryen and its title for said heir is 'Prince of Dragonstone' until they began their reign.
After Robert's Rebellion and the ousting of House Targaryen, it became the land and seat of Stannis Baratheon, Robert's younger brother.
It was also the base of operations for House Baratheon of Dragonstone's army, their lord and the Red Priestess known as Melisandre.
There was one rumor about the Dragonstone Castle relating to the dragons.
After the last dragon's death, it was said the eggs were all hoarded and guarded by Targaryen soldiers in a vault.
However, none of the eggs hatched before and during the Mad King's reign and they became fossilized over time.
The various and numerous eggs were gathered up before Robert came to rule where in his Targaryen hate filled rage; he then ordered them to be shattered on the vault ground and the hidden tapestry of House Targaryen inside was shredded by Baratheon swords and spears.
All except three of them.
A lone soldier ran outside the gates towards the rendezvous point he planned with a sail merchant to leave Dragonstone and Westeros all together. Both men have heard about the immense value of fossilized dragon eggs being worth more than priceless jewels except for exceptionally cut jewels.
"I got em! And these things are a beauty!" the Baratheon called out to his merchant friend.
The merchant didn't look pleased when he heard the number. "Only three? The plan was for ten at most. We'd be set for life and out of this forsaken country."
"The soldiers got there before I could so three was all I could manage. But we can raise the price when we sell 'em." He set the chest filled with the precious eggs in the center of the boat before he set his leg inside. "Boy, I can't wait to-"
The greedy man gasped before he gagged as blood splattered from his slit throat.
The smirking sailor watched his partner fall back on the sandy beach before he pushed his small boat until it floated on the ocean. "Sorry but I never intended to share from the beginning." He opened the chest slightly and smirked ominously as the colors were mesmerizing, "I'm going to be a very rich man in Essos."
He rowed his small boat back to the hidden anchored ship, boarded it and set sail east to Essos with his men.
"Captain, where should we go?" One of his men asked as the apparent captain mused loudly before he answered him.
"Meeren sounds good."
Raucous laughter thundered the ship as their destination was made clear while their captain was going to be a rich man. The crew worked their positions with hearty laughs, jokes and the occasional rumbles over who is best in either warfare or sleeping with a married woman.
Oh yes, Euron Greyjoy was indeed going to be a very rich man and possibly one of the most powerful of the lords in all of Westeros and maybe even in Essos or Bravos.
None of them including the backstabbing Greyjoy noticed the cloth-covered eggs moved in the slightest hint nor the knowledge of whose destiny will change for someone in Essos as their intended ones also made way to a near exact same destination.
~XxX-Old Valyria; with Oberyn-XxX~
Oberyn was a normally patient man, but for some reason, standing in these ruins put him on edge, and he didn't like it. He felt his foot tapping as he crossed his arms wearily, "What is taking Naruto so long?"
What felt like hours were only a handful of minutes ever since the Dornish prince left the smelting chamber. His mind was working overtime on his personal little discovery, but he wanted to be sure he was right and not jump the wagon on this. Oberyn kept pacing through the main part of the shrine as he waited for Naruto to finally arrive.
"Sorry I'm late, Oby-san." the Uzumaki called out, causing the prince to whirl around towards the blonde, "Didn't know how much stuff that chamber had, along with the alloys being all scattered about." of which was also true, there were four storage rooms filled with various metals and alloys for him to gather properly before storing them away.
"No no, it's quite alright." Oberyn waved it off, glad that the boy hadn't run into anything unpleasant while away.
Going by the nearby steps, Naruto carefully dumped the alloyed metals before putting the later found items to the side.
At first glance, Oberyn was a little surprised to see the amount found in terms of scraps. By his estimates, there was potential for some reforging in making several short swords and daggers. Hard to tell at this point since he's not knowledgeable in smithing. Putting that thought aside, Oberyn looked over at Naruto and asked him to unseal the suit of armor and halberd acquired earlier.
Not knowing what the Martell was intending, the blonde compiled and unsealed the desired item. Picking up one of the metal scraps, Oberyn placed it side by side with the halberd and then with one of the armor pieces for closer inspections. The prince soon swallowed a lump of air before having to sit down with slightly widened eyes on his face.
"Oh dear gods… I can't believe it." the Dornish man whispered in surprise and awe.
"Believe what?" Naruto didn't understand.
"I never thought I'd see so much Valyrian steel together in all my life, all at once." answered the prince as he eyed the legendary steel scraps, halberd and armor set.
That was before he saw the items placed to the side, possibly what Naruto found by accident while 'cleaning up' the chamber. One was a black handled knife in its sheath, which had small chains wrapped around it, and there was a ruby was embedded in the pommel. The other appeared to be an odd looking crown with how detailed it appeared to be, including the diamond embedded in the very center of it. Given the unique feature of the nose ridge, the prince thought that instead of it resting on top of one's head it would be slipped around one's face to be an upper face mask.
"Valyrian steel?"
"...It's a very rare metal that originated here in Old Valyria. Sought after by many with how high of quality the metals are." Oberyn started out as he picked up some of the scrap metals. "They never rust, they never break-ouch!... And the weapons made from it are never dull." the Martell shortly listed as he sucked on his freshly pricked finger, "It's considered priceless or several mines worth of gold if one would want to purchase one from someone else. Though the last time that happened was hundreds of years ago by the Lannister's in getting one of their own."
"Well, like I said earlier, it's not just any metal; it's an alloy. The odd coloration and markings show that a different material was added in during the creation or forging process that it increased its durability and composition." stated the shinobi before looking closer at it again in better light, "But now that I can see this better, I'm guessing that several metals were added instead of just one." he said in silent admiration.
Oberyn nodded his head, "True and that at least makes little sense now that I think about it." The prince said, remembering that the Valyrian's of old were said to be quite ahead of everyone's time in practically everything.
So they might have known more in terms of smithing.
"So is there a way to reforge all of this to whatever we want, Oby-san?" Naruto questioned curiously. If he learned such a practice it would be a good way to improve his own abilities in crafting weapons.
"...If you want to reforge the metal, you'd need to find an expert in working with Valyrian steel Naruto. *Sigh* Unfortunately there's only a handful of blacksmiths in the world that can only reforge the steel, not make it as it is a lost craft. And they don't come cheap if you want to learn from them or purchase their services." the prince added on as an afterthought.
"Are you sure?" Naruto asked curiously.
"Yes… Why do you ask?" Oberyn looked at the boy curiously.
Opening up the recently found smithing journal, Naruto came to a certain page and presented it to the prince. Looking closer, the Dornish man saw diagrams in what he assumed was the 'alloys' creation process and some pages later showed what he heard about in terms of reforging. With widened eyes, Oberyn realized what this journal contained...
By the seven, this... this was... holy shit...
If this was real, this could be worth the position of King of the Seven Kingdoms!
"Ways in creating and reforging Valyrian steel." the prince muttered in awe, "Of course… Those scraps in that smithing chamber were leftover pieces of Valyrian weapons." he said in realization.
"And jewelry… hence the odd crown over there." Naruto added while Oberyn nodded on that little bit of information before the blonde spoke up, "Though there is one piece in here that I somewhat don't understand all that well, aside from the writing." Naruto pointed to the page earlier as it showed a small diagram of some unknown material added into the metal to create the legendary steel, "It appears to be some sort of glass-like material mixed into the steel, given the sketch here, but other than that I have no clue what it is exactly."
Humming in thought, Oberyn got up from his seat and paced around a little to collect his thoughts. After several moments, he spoke to his young companion, "We should find someone that could translate that journal. Probably a Valyrian steel reforger to be exact to help out on this. But for now we should head on out. We've rested long enough and as much as I'd like to stick around more, I'd like to leave this place and find a way back to my ship."
Nodding at this, Naruto quickly sealed everything away into his scrolls after taking out the remaining kunai and shuriken to make room for the scraps and extra items. He didn't want to waste anymore time as it is with him having a ticket off of this haunted island. Going up the stairs, the two made their way out of the shrine… only to find the entrance closed off.
"What the hell?" blinked the Uzumaki as he looked for a handle to pull onto, yet there wasn't any. Forming up a Rasengan, he snarled as he quickly rammed it into the door, the ground exploding underfoot from the sheer force of the blondes attack, causing the Red Viper to stumble back from the backblast… only for it to not gain a single scratch after it bounced off its surface, "The hell is up with this door!?"
"I don't know Naruto, but I'm not like the feeling of this." The prince muttered as he too didn't like what he just saw. In the fight earlier with that one monster, that one blue attack really did a lot in causing damage.
But if the door wouldn't open, and is that naturally reinforced, then something must be wrong here.
"Then we should find another exit if possible- Wait... If this door is closed, where's the natural light coming from?" Naruto questioned.
It was a good question for the pair.
When they got back to the main shrine chamber, the light seemed to stay the same.
There were no candles lit, given they all melted out years ago.
So where was the light coming from?
Going up in the higher levels of the shrine, higher than the stone thrones, they saw what they were looking for - an exit; or to be more precise, a metal gate. There was enough empty space to bring in the light to the main shrine chamber, but not enough to light up the entire structure.
"It's locked and I didn't see any keys while exploring." Oberyn remarked.
"Nah… We don't need a key." Naruto smirked. Pulling out a pair of kunai, he leveled himself to the lock in question, "Just need to break it." he stated before coating the bladed with some chakra, Naruto jabbed the two blades into the lock and with enough force and turning, the lock broke.
Pushing the gate open, Oberyn thought of slight amazement at the moment, "Huh… Handy."
"If this was a public place I'd be using my lock picking skills. But since we're not…" Naruto shrugged.
"Yes, I get your point. Let's get moving." Oberyn remarked after stepping out of the gateway, the two adjusted their eyes a little to see that they ended up in a forest. Though something was off about this as they distinctly remembered that there was no forest nearby the shrine when they first entered it, "This is not right." he said, the hairs on his neck standing up in warning.
"I know… You said that this place is cursed right? Well if it wasn't for that monster we fought earlier, I would've called bullshit." the blond shinobi stated in a worried tone, "Now I think this place just wants to screw with us." he remarked.
"I agree. So let's try to find the shoreline and then walk around it to find my ship." Oberyn said in a hurried tone.
With Oberyn's shield and spear out with Naruto's kunai, the two venture into the forest.
Unlike before entering the shrine, with neither of them coming across any obstacles, the pair soon came across handfuls of stone men. They hissed once while gazing at the two humans and rushed them with weapons on hand.
The prince bashed his shield against one of them before smacking the man to the side to eventually pierce it's chest. With Naruto, the blond stepped out of the way before slashing at the man a few times before he embedded his weapon into his head. Pulling the weapon out, Naruto soon tossed it into a stone man's face, having it lodge into its skull.
Oberyn dashed forward as he discarded his shield and used his pole's length to skewer a stone man some feet away. Coming in close, he jumped onto him, pulled the weapon out and tossed it at the last of the group.
"What happened to these people?" asked the shinobi as he started to pilfer the corpses for anything of value. This time he got a jagged short sword, a basic shield and a spear for Oberyn, and some ammo for the crossbow he acquired earlier. 'I should probably do something with that. Don't want to keep reloading it after each shot.'
"Grayscale happened." answered the prince, "A dreaded and sometimes fatal disease if not taken care of quickly. If not treated at some point, people would just drop off the infected to ruined areas of Essos… Hell sometimes here, of all places, where they're said to end up going mad and bloodthirsty."
"Is there a way to take care of it?" Naruto questioned.
"None that I know of… Though word from the wise, don't let them make skin contact or else you'll get it. Wouldn't want a boy, such as yourself, to die or get infected too soon. I'm already starting to like you slightly." he grinned back.
"Slightly?" Naruto smirked.
"We only met each other about an hour or so ago. It'll take more than that, along with some more fighting together, for me to start enjoying your company."
"Okay?"
The two progressed through the forest as they kept encountering several foes every so often. Some were standard stone men and some odd surprises of seeing more mutated looking foes with their fungal looking appearances. They were quite unsettling with the clicking sounds they were giving off. Not wanting to deal with them, Naruto used a shuriken with an exploding tag attached before tossing it once the group came together. The 'clickers' exploded in a blast of gore before things settled for the pair to continue onwards.
...*clang*... *clang*... *clang*... *clang*
"Hey, you hear that?" The Uzumaki asked as his ears seemed to pick up on something.
"Hear what?"
"Just... Listen."
...*clang*... *clang*... *clang*... *clang*
"You know, now that I listen closely I can hear it too. It's faint, but I can hear it."
"Where'd you think it's coming from?"
Turning around every other direction, their senses seemed to land towards a building some distance away.
Their curiosity got the better of them as they made their way towards it as the structure's details seemed more focused. The cathedral kept showing signs of great wear and tear over the years, but still stood with it's vine covered walls and trees seemingly growing out of said walls.
Rising up the stony steps they heard the sounds getting louder and louder by each passing moment.
...*Clang*... *Clang*... *Clang*... *Clang*
"Whoever's fighting in there needs help!"
"And do you think the person inside is friendly or another foe for us to take?"
"Then we've got to take our chances Oby-san." Was Naruto's reply as he unfurled his 'sword' scroll and brought out his Kiba Blades he got from Raiga's corpse before putting them on his back for a moment.
Pumping chakra into his arms to push the doors open with Oberyn letting out a frustrated sigh before helping the teenager out.
It was heavier than it looked.
As the entrance gave way, the two entered and with the candles lighting up the room, they saw a gruesome sight before them. A legion's worth of bodies lied throughout the large room with several stacked on top of each other varying piles. On the stony floor, water and blood was spread out to show bad things were on top of the smell.
The pair ignored all of that as their focus soon landed on the individuals fighting against each other.
...*CLANG*... *SLASH* *CLANG*... *CLANG*... *SLASH* *SLASH* *SLASH*... *CLANG* *SLASH*
They appeared to be wearing the same set of clothing and armor like everyone of the dead men. The legionnaires carried great-swords in their right hands while having jagged daggers in their left, appearing to be the only arsenal they have. Wearing a black-dyed leather vest as it was over chain-mail. The same kind of leather was tied around the arms, with only the left was fitted with a gauntlet. The iron kneecaps had slight decorations, depicting a lion's head from what Naruto and Oberyn could barely make out as it seemed to be of the same design on the armored shoulder pieces. To finish off their appearances, they wore red ragged cloaks with oddly pointed steel helms that seemed unnatural; as parts of them seemed to be falling off and seemed to originate from something else.
...*CLANG*... *SLASH* *CLANG*... "GAH!" One legionnaire gasped out as his 'comrades' sword plunged through his gut.
"The sword… is mine!" the remaining man growled out as he pulled the great sword out, letting the body fall onto the floor. The man punted out a breath before his eyes caught sight of the new arrivals. Narrowing his gaze, he turned towards them and pointed his bloody great sword towards them, "You shall not take… what is rightfully mine!"
~XxX-Play Naruto Shippuden Ost: Lightning Speed-XxX~
The main legionnaire ran towards the two at a quickened pace, causing Naruto to quickly ready his swords -a spark of lightning igniting across the chakra steel - and Oberyn to get his shield and spear out. As the legionnaire got in close, he leaped into the air which caused the prince to roll out of the way before their opponent slammed his sword against Naruto's twin blades. The impact was strong as parts of the thunder swords crackled with lightning as the blonde struggled to hold the man back.
Not wanting Naruto to get harmed, the Red Viper thrusted his spear into his opponent's side, causing blood to spill out before the man swung around to slash his sword at the spear. The prince held up his shield as he dealt with more attacks on his person. Naruto came up from behind and started to slash at the legionnaire several times, causing him to groan out in pain as blood started to seep out of him.
With their opponent distracted, Oberyn rolled in close to bash the man's side with his shield. Grabbing the end of his spear, he swung his weapon around in a whirlwind like motion to get quick slashes against the man. Things seemed to be working on the assault by the traveling pair as Naruto fought against the man, dual-sword to sword to distract him well enough for Oberyn to strike him from behind.
*Grunt* "Dammit! This guy sure packs a strong swing." muttered the Uzumaki as he blocked several attacks. He was glad he had picked the Kiba cuz the others would have been a hindrance in this fight, and he didn't really know how to use them like he did with Kubikiribocho or the Kiba as he had them longer than the others.
"Be glad that there's only one of him." the Red Viper grunted out since the opponent was taking quite the beating. He kept thrusting and spinning his spear around but wondered how this man was still standing with the many lethal attacks he laid upon him.
"Neither of you shall have it!"
"What exactly! *Grunt* If you tell us *Grunt* then we'd just stay away from it *Grunt* and let you have it for all we care!" yelled the shinobi as the unknown man swung at the blond. Crossing the twin swords in front of him, Naruto grunted in surprise as he was hit with enough force to go flying back and fall onto the bloody ground. "Dammit."
Seeing Naruto undefended, Oberyn tried to rush towards the boy to defend him slightly, but the legionnaire blocked his path. The Viper bashed his shield against him, but it seemed to parry against the jagged dagger. It pushed the shield out of the way, causing Oberyn to stumble before he was assaulted by several sword strikes.
"GAH!" Yelled out the Dornish man as he was sent flying towards a pile of dead corpses.
"Don't worry! I'm coming!" Naruto cried out as he tried to get back up. When he did, he saw a sight that would probably haunt his dreams for a while. As one of the legionnaire corpses rose from the bloody stone floor nearby, it looked at the blonde before making its way towards him, "Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME?!"
Naruto rolled back as the second legionnaire performed a dash slashing attack in the attempts to skewer him. With the attack failing, the second opponent swung his great sword around in the attempts of lopping the blond's head right off of his shoulders. The shinobi was forced to use the single Kiba blade he had-the other had been dropped mid-flight courtesy of the unknown legionnaire-on hand as a shield to keep the bloody blade off of him.
The assault was brutal, making Naruto wince out in pain several times.
He wanted to summon clones or use his Rasengan, but the legionnaire was a bit too fast and strong for Naruto to quickly do such things.
Back with Oberyn, he wasn't doing much better as he kept dodging the first legionnaire's attacks. They were quite dangerous and he wasn't fully equipped to deal with this sort of thing since leather armor can only do so much. He was feeling quite exhausted from this whole ordeal. Even looking towards the side, the prince saw that Naruto was seemingly dealing with his own legionnaire at this time. He could only hope they would be able to have help in any way shape or form.
Unbeknownst to either of the living humans, a corpse rose from the ground with a groan as it eyed the two legionaries fighting against the new arrivals. Underneath his deformed helm, green eyes shown with fury as a part of his soul seemed to return, all because of seeing the blonde teenager.
'He looks… so much… like him.' the third legionnaire thought as more of his being seemed to return. Using his sword as a crutch, he hoisted himself up and staggered in making his way towards the blonde, 'I must... protect him.'
And with that last burst of clarity-he waded back into battle once again.
Naruto was struggling on his feet by this point as he tried to get Kurama to lend chakra to him. But the fox wouldn't respond back at all-he was tired dammit, leaving Naruto on his own in this matter. All that he could feel at this point was his body burning from pushing himself further and further, just like the previous times when he tried to use the beast's power.
'Are my chakra coils expanding right now? Is that the reason why I'm feeling this burn right inside of me? And why hasn't Kurama given me any chakra?! If I die, he dies! So why isn't he helping?!' were the teenager's thoughts as he ran by the nearby wall and leapt off of it to smack the second legionnaires head to the side, 'I just need some space and I could maybe rasengan his ass next week. Then I can help out Oby-san.'
He was so distracted with his thoughts that he didn't see the third legionnaire running towards him. When he did, Naruto freaked out and thought he was going to get killed in such a way. Though much to his surprise, the third legionnaire pushed him away as said legionnaire blocked the incoming sword swing with his own weapon.
When gazing upon the third 'opponents' great sword, it was greatly different from the other two he saw. Sure it was a great sword in terms of length, but the design was completely different. The other legionnaires' great swords had a black handle, pommel and guard with some black covering over the bloody blade; but the one wielded by the one that saved Naruto was in stark contrast. It seemed to have a leathery brown handle with a golden guard and a matching lion's head pommel.
Shoving the second opponent away, the third turned back and seemingly gave the teenager a warm gaze before going back to attack the second. Naruto on his part saw this and was confused about what just happened. Getting back up, he tried looking for his remaining half of the Kiba blades when he saw it lying several feet away on the ground near the unknown legionnaire that was helping him and Oby-san. Not wanting to question this right now, Naruto held his hand out towards it and called upon Shukaku's chakra and summoned it from its resting spot where grabbed his second sword from the air and dashed towards Oberyn.
The prince was about to be stabbed when Naruto leaped at the first opponent and slashed at his side, sending him flying to the far wall. Checking on Martell, he saw the man really drained from the beating he had to deal with.
Reaching into his pack, he pulled out some blood and rations pills, taking one of each for himself before handing the rest to Oberyn, "Here, eat these."
"...What are they?" the prince questioned.
"They'll help gain back your strength… Just trust me on this, please." he urged. He was also kinda glad he knew how to make them-thank you Granny Tsunade.
Hesitantly taking them from the blonde's palm, he popped the pills into his mouth and crunched on them. They tasted really odd, even for him, as he tasted blood and some substance rushing down his throat. As Naruto helped him get back onto his feet, Oberyn slowly felt really invigorated. Something that surprised him greatly and never experienced before.
"What the hell?" He muttered in shock as he tightened his hand. "How did this-" started to say but was interrupted by the blond ninja, "You can thank my ration and blood pills on that Oby-san. Helps a little on wounds and revitalizes your stamina."
"...Why didn't you give them to me before?!" The prince spoke out, seemingly ignoring the fight going on in the background as the third legionnaire was now fighting against the first after killing off the second.
"I only had a limited supply, for starters." Stated the shinobi before he turned around to see the current fight going on. "Come on, we need to finish that first guy off."
"And what of the second?"
"...Actually that's the third… and for some reason… he saved me."
Ignoring Oberyn's questioning look, Naruto dashed at the pair of legionnaires with a Rasengan charged up in the palm of his free hand. Slamming it down on the first opponent, said man yelled out in pain as he was flung to the nearby wall and was embedded into it. Grunting and roaring with rage, the first opponent pulled himself out and hotly glared at the boy and the third 'opponent'.
"Take your filthy hands off of my sword!" the man all but commanded as he glared at the newcomer.
"It's no longer yours, dear ancestor. It belongs to me, to my brother and to his children and his legacy." the third legionnaire stated in a slightly even tone as he readied his stance at his 'ancestor', "You were foolish in taking Brightroar all those years ago and all I wanted to do was bring it back home!"
'Did that legionnaire say Brightroar? As in the Lannister ancestral Valyrian sword Brightroar?' Thought out the prince as he stood beside Naruto. With a shake of his head, he tried to focus, 'Questions can be answered later, for now we need to defeat this man.'
Without warning, the 'ancestral Lannister' ran forward with a roar as he came in with a sweeping thrust. Rage clouded his vision, trying to take back what's his to begin with. With each sweep of his blade, rock and dirt was flung into the air as he tried to cut up the group of three. Naruto blocked each of the strikes, but was being pushed back in the attacks while Oberyn and the allied legionary laid on the assault.
Before long, the ancient Lannister collapsed onto the ground, trying to get back up to continue his pursuit of defeating them. But it wasn't enough as he went back down with a low *thud*, leaving the group of three to rest for the moment. Oberyn was going to start asking the 'descended Lannister' when said man started to groan out in pain before yelling out an agonizing wail. The deceased collapsed, clutching his sides as blood and what appeared to be embers were being lifted off of his body and slowly flew into the air.
The two companions gained a sense of wariness as they saw all of the corpses in the room slowly turn into blood and ash before the material went towards the 'ancestral Lannister'. What was even more surprising was when all of the other copies of the same great sword and dagger burned into glowing embers as they followed the ash/blood cloud trail. Reaching the downed enemy; the blood, ash and embers were forming around him as the material of all of the legionaries and weapons revitalized and strengthened him.
Slowly getting back up, the ancestral Lannister slammed his sword into the ground, causing it to spark to life. Flames started to dance around the blade, along with the crude looking dagger, as it seemed to match the glowing red eyes emanating from the man's gaze. Following this, the man's clothing started to singe with edges glowing like embers in the flames.
As he watched this, Oberyn got real nervous seeing this occur, 'Dear gods… this reminds me of the tales I've heard that took place at the Siege of the Pyke. Is this what those soldiers back then saw when seeing Thoros' flaming sword?'
"I am taking back what is mine! For I am Tommen II, King of the Rock!" The now identified Tommen II bellowed out as he went into a fierce fighting stance, "And I shall take back Brightroar from your unworthy hands!"
And like in his House's motto, Naruto and Oberyn heard the ancient king roar before he lunged towards them with a fiery trial. Reacting quickly, Naruto summoned a dozen shadow clones to help out in this fight. One of them was quickly killed off by the crude dagger before a couple were sliced in half by the fire coated sword.
Rolling out of the way, Oberyn recovered quickly and grabbed one of his spears before throwing it at Tommen II. The weapon landed it's mark as it buried deep into the possessed man's leg, making him bellow out in pain before cutting the spear from behind. Swiftly turning his gaze, Tommen's eyes looked at Martell and leaped into the air to strike the man down.
Oberyn wasn't going to react quick enough to move out of the way, so he held up his shield in response. Expecting a heavy blow, all he heard was a resounding *CLANG* before looking at his young companion. And with an angry look on his face, Naruto yelled at the ancestral Lannister as the three swords were struggling against each other. "Not on my watch asshole!"
With a mighty heave, due to Naruto pumping his limbs with chakra, the blonde shoved Tommen away and began spinning in random directions, back and forth and he even slammed down on his knees to slash a couple times as he delivered several gashes onto the cursed man. Getting out of his stiffened position, Oberyn grabbed his other lance and followed his companion's actions by thrusting and swiping at their opponent. They soon jumped out of the way as Tommen swung his fire sword around in a small fire-like tornado in hopes of hitting either of the companions.
Lightning clashed against flame in a dual of the elements as the lone Uzumaki clashed with the ancient Lannister in a dance of death.
The remainder of Naruto's clones threw out their kunai with precise swings with attached exploding tags as each strike then swiftly delivered a good amount of damage onto Tommen. Bellowing out in rage, he dug his sword into the ground and swiped upwards to send out a fiery trail that destroyed a few clones in the process. What was left of the clones leaped at the ancient Lannister king with either kunai or rasengan on hand, but neither of them landed the hits as they were soon killed off and went up into smoke.
Both traveling companions dashed around Tommen before Oberyn slid on the ground and Naruto went into the air before both of them struck the fire-sword wielder. The two had to soon move out of the way as Tommen II went into a blind fury as he started to wildly swing all over the place at this point. Neither companions wanted to get close, but it was the only way to finish things off and exit the building alive.
'Kurama… Please… At least help me on this like you did when I fought Sasuke.' Naruto thought as he and the prince were running all over the room to hopefully find an opening to strike, 'After this you can go back to sleep for all I care for a while.'
*Groan* "Fine… Just don't disturb my slumber and don't get killed. Then I'll call things even." Was the fox's response before Naruto felt his reserves flood with some of the fox's chakra. Oberyn didn't notice the small changes, due to the fight taking place, but if he did the prince would've seen Naruto's eyes become red as blood and his whisker birthmarks being more pronounced.
'Alright! Time to end this!' And with him invigorated, Naruto ran up the wall before pumping a lot of chakra into his legs. Leaping off of the structure's wall, leaving a massive dent in the process, Naruto went in close with his twin blades coated in red lightning that was influenced by the might of the fox's chakra.
Coming in close from both sides, Oberyn thrusted his spear into Tommen's chest as it pierced his heart while Naruto swung his mighty Kiri swords at the fallen king's head and freed it from it's decrepit body. Landing in a recovery roll, Naruto looked back to see the body slowly falling down onto the dry ground before it's body went up in flames and turned to ash.
This left the two companions in a slightly panting mess as they tried to catch their breaths and calm down their hearts. With the adrenaline pumping through their veins, it'd take several minutes for that to happen, but this was worth it as they had quite the fight on their hands and both survived this encounter.
"Gods above, I need a good fucking." Muttered the Dornish prince, causing his young companion to look at him with a strange, shocked look, *Panting* "After that, I really want to get back to my boat... and fuck my beloved Ellaria long and hard. *Panting* Nothing is better... than having a good fuck after a great fight like that." Looking at the young blonde, Oberyn gave Naruto a cheeky smile. "Maybe I should get you a girl to have some fun with."
"...WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!" Naruto bellowed out, resulting in him having an oddly comedic appearance on his face. With the literal white eyes and pointed teeth as he pointed at the prince in an accusing manner, "THERE'S NO WAY I'M GETTING ROPED INTO DOING THAT, YOU PERVERT!"
This caused the Dornish man to burst out laughing as he never got this kind of reaction before. It was practically priceless as he heard the blonde teenager rant out in a comedic fashion. Though this stopped as both companions heard a series of coughs on the far side of the room, making them look in that general direction to see the descended Lannister was barely alive.
Rushing towards his side, Naruto turned the man over before his distorted helm came off to reveal his long gray hair and weak green eyes. Pulling down the clothing from his face, Naruto saw the withered looking men's long beard to help show that he hasn't been able to clean up his appearance in Kami knows how many years. Asides from that, the Lannister had a very withered appearance as he spoke to the blonde shinobi.
"Is… Is it over?"
"Yeah, old man. That guy's dead now." Was the Uzumaki's response, getting a small smile from the old Lannister.
"That's good. *Wheezing* That's very good."
Off to the side, the Martell looked upon the scene of seeing Naruto trying to take care of the obviously dying man on the ground. Whatever curse he was under, it was finally broken. But not without consequence given his withered look shown on his face.
"Please child… Hand me my family sword… Hand me Brightroar."
Complying with his wishes, Naruto walked over to where the Lannister Valyrian blade was at and brought it over.
Carefully putting the great sword onto the man's chest, the Lannister weakly grasped it as he felt a bit more at peace, "What is your name child?"
"It's Naruto Uzumaki."
Nodding at this, the old Lannister realized the boy wasn't his nephew Jamie. They looked so much alike around the current boy's age, aside from the whisker marks and blue eyes. Turning his head over slightly to the teenager's older companion, he spoke out.
"And yours?"
"...It's Oberyn Martell, sir."
"Oberyn... God's you've grown so much."
"...And you're Gerion Lannister? The youngest brother of Tywin Lannister, aren't you?" Oberyn asked, getting the now identified Gerion to weakly nod. They've only met a few times when the Prince was younger and remembered the man leaving for Valyria in search of Brightroar. To think that he'd end up seeing the man after so many years in his current state.
"Yes. And please, fulfill my one last request. Please take me back home. That's all I ask." Pleaded the weak Lannister, getting Naruto to nod with a delayed one from the Martell, "Thank.. you..."
Shutting his eyes one last time, Gerion Lannister of House Lannister finally passed on.
Without saying a word, Naruto pulled out a storage scroll and made quick work into creating a seal. This was the only way to safely transport the body since a stretcher would take too long and he doesn't know how long it'll take to bring his body back to his family. Summoning a few clones, they helped move the body onto the dried up seal and with a *poof* his body and sword were gone inside of the scroll.
"So what now, Oby-san?" Naruto questioned.
"Now, we leave." Martell simply said as he made his way towards the exit on the other side of the building. "I've had enough of this place and I just want to get back to my beloved Ellaria."
Nodding in response, Naruto soon followed after his older companion. Though he did stop as he saw the great sword and dagger that Tommen II used in the fight. He didn't notice this before, but whatever happened after the man's death caused the fire to clean up both of the bladed weapons. No more blood stained the blades, causing them to have a bit of a shinier appearance. The dagger still looked crude, but it seemed to be its initial design with the curved piece of metal on the wooden handle to compliment the claw looking blade.
With the great sword blade, it had a gradient coloring of black at the very tip before transitioning to a standard steel gray in the middle before light gray towards the handle. The darkened horned guard compliments the spiked pommel and the leather handle as it connected with the blade's guard, stretched out towards a quarter down the blade as it connected to the fuller. An interesting design on the blade's guard was the bloomed flower with vines wrapped around it to finish things off.
The shinobi hesitantly picked them up and expected something foul to happen, only for nothing to occur at all. They felt right in his hands, for some reason, as a warm feeling came into his palms. Deciding to take the weapons with him, he quickly sealed those up in an empty spot in his 'weapons' scroll before picking back up his Kiba blades and strapped them to his back.
As the two got to the keep's exit, they pushed the door open that was surprisingly easy this time around. Once opened, the two were greeted with semi-bright lights as they viewed the ocean with the two stepping onto the cliff side. Neither wanted to know why they ended up here, but it didn't matter as Oberyn let out a pleasant sight.
"Well aren't you a sight for sore eyes." Martell spoke as he gazed at his ship near the coast. "Now we just need to get the hell off of this island and we're home free."
"Are you sure about that Oby-san?"
"...Why do you ask Naruto?"
"Because there's a ship coming closer to yours."
Looking back at his ship, the Red Viper looked a bit further off the coast and saw another ship was coming in. A sinking feeling came around and he feared what was going to happen. In response, he started to run away from his position to try and find a coastline.
Seeing this, the shinobi ran with him and asked the older man. "What the hell are you doing?!"
"I need to get back quickly! Pirates are about to hit our only transport and my beloved is there!"
"Then what are we waiting for!" Naruto summoned a horde of clones as some of them grabbed the Dornish prince. He was about to yell out at them to let go before he felt a bit weightless as the whole group seemed to jump off of the cliff side and towards the water below. Oberyn felt his heart trying to break out of his chest at this point, causing him to yell out at this point.
"ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY?!"
This of course caused the blond Uzumaki to roar with laughter.
-Martell Ship-
*Sigh* "Where are you, my love?" Questioned a Dornish woman as she laid on the bed in her shared cabin with her 'husband'.
This woman is Ellaria Sand, paramour to Oberyn Martell and wife to him in all but name. She is a beautiful woman in her mid-thirties with her ravenous black hair reaching her lower back. Her olive skin tone helped boost her attractive and eye-catching appearance with her light brown eyes and thin lips. She was currently wearing an orange-yellow dress with some pieces of snake-like jewelry on her ears and around both her neck and wrists.
Described by her 'husband', she is quite adventurous and shares the same tastes as him in terms of finding others to enjoy varying pleasures with. Especially for playing both sides of the board in terms of their sexuality. She does have her limits at times, but she tends to comply if her beloved is with her for every moment. Though at the current moment, she wished that Oberyn didn't go off doing his own thing in Old Valyria.
It's been roughly a few hours, by her guess, as she took a nap to kill that time frame, hoping the Dornish prince will return back from his little search once she wakes up. They were on their way to Mereen for their little 'getaway' from Dorne before heading back. Both of them rarely go out on these trips since they want to be sure they can take care of their children, even though they're all teenagers now.
On this little journey to Mereen, which has been about a couple of weeks so far; they've stopped by Lys, the Orange Shore, and Volantis to restock their supplies along the way. They would probably spend a few extra days getting towards their destination, but Oberyn insisted they take a small shortcut through Old Valyria to save some days of travel instead of around it. Of course on the very day the ship came across the place, they experienced a sudden storm where she, her love and the crew saw a ball of light fall from the skies above.
Afterwards, the Dornish prince's curiosity got the better of him and went out on his own to hopefully find the 'fallen star'. It was not great seeing her love leave her by herself and Ellaria hoped that he'll show back very soon. There were these past moments during her nap that she felt truly worried of her precious Viper, but didn't know what was going on.
With a small amount of exhaustion, she made her way out of her cabin to get some fresh air with her continually talking to herself about her worries. "I don't know how much my heart can take without you being near me. I just need a distraction from all of this, but I don't know what can help take my mind off of this little problem."
~XxX-Play: Assassin's Creed 4 OST: Ship Boarding Theme-XxX~
*BANG* *CRASH*
"What the hell?" Rushing out of the cabin now, the Sand Snake looked outside to see what happened as the ship harshly rocked. Turning towards the source, she realized what happened. "Pirates."
By this point, the Martell crew was on high alert as they quickly armed themselves with their bladed weapons. The boarding party soon followed as several pirates swung in from their ropes, letting go and falling down while stabbing several crew members in the process. The fighting soon commenced as people left and right started to fight for their lives.
Ellaria wasn't defenseless however as she pulled out a knife on her person and stabbed an incoming pirate before relieving himself of his sword. Quickly parrying an incoming swing, the Sand Snake used her knife to slice the man's throat before kicking his corpse away. Rushing into the small battle, she helped some of the crew members fend off some of the attackers. But they appeared to just keep coming to no end. Be as it may, she'll do what it takes to help save this ship by the time her beloved returns.
"By the Seven, we need a lot of help right now." She muttered before being kicked from behind and falling onto the deck. Turning around, Ellaria saw one of the pirates about to stab her into the chest…
*SHIRK*
"Hey. Are you alright ma'am?"
...Until a blonde teenager stabbed the man's back once landing on top of him.
Dumbfounded by this odd arrival, Oberyn's paramour only nodded in response.
The teen was around 6'2'' with blonde spiky hair that is long enough to reach his mid-back, pulled into a tight ponytail, and has two long bangs that cup both his cheeks. He has a tattered and torn cloak that is orange with black flame embroideries stitched in the lower portions of the sleeves and the bottom of the coat with a black collar. This was worn over a black jacket that was closed with two buttons in the middle to show he wore no shirt underneath and it had an orange swirl on the left breast area. He had a white cloth wrapped around his waist and attached to a black belt. He wore white wrappings around his legs and a pair of open toed sandals on his feet.
In his hand was a strange sword that had two obvious protrusions that were crafted into the design, but when he spun she realized he actually held two blades, and was quite skilled if the number of enemies he felled was anything to go by.
Only she paused when she noticed something else.
"What the fuck?" The snake woman muttered as she eyed the odd spectacle.
"God's dammit Naruto!" A familiar voice called out, making Ellaria spin around to see her lover finally on deck with a spear and shield on hand, "Warn me next time you do that!"
"Well there was no time Oby-san." One of the boy's called out as he fought one of the larger pirates. "It was literally the quickest way of getting here!"
"And running on the fucking water was the better solution?! With you and your copies carrying me the entire way!" The Viper questioned as he stabbed a pirate through the gut before bashing another with his shield. "I would've preferred swimming for fucks sake!"
"Yeah. Yeah. Whatever." Another blonde uncaringly said as he was quick to run in between the pirates and sliced parts of their legs to make them fall down with varying thuds.
The battle continued as the other clones landed on deck and helped relieve the Martell crew of the enemies. Even went so far with the original landing on the pirate's ship and made his way through most of them. Slicing several at a time with his swords by either cutting off limbs or cutting their chests up badly.
The shinobi wanted to try and keep casualties down to a minimum on the enemy side so the Martell's could do whatever they saw fit on what just occurred. Though it's hard to do so with the pirates' constant attempts to kill him at every turn. So he was forced to keep doing what he was doing, while occasionally throwing shuriken at the enemy crew with some sticking out of their eyes or piercing some vital areas.
Back on the Martell ship, the Sand Snake sliced one of the attackers across the chest before kicking him overboard. The same followed as she swept behind one of the pirates and shoved her sword through the man's back. With the Viper, he threw his spear at one of the attackers with it piercing his neck and going through another opponent's head. Coming in close, Oberyn smacked one of the other attackers off of his boat with his shield. With his adrenaline rush, he twisted around when someone bumped right into him and almost attacked the person, only to see…
"Oberyn!"/"Ellaria!"
Soon after their small surprise, they developed each other into a soul searing kiss as the action was soon dying down. The Martell crew was cheering for their success, despite the loss of some of their men. But let it be known that the families of those fallen members will be compensated for their troubles.
As their kiss soon ended, Ellaria gave her 'husband' a curious look and asked the obvious question. "What took you so long, my love?"
"I'm sorry, my dear, but I had some trouble on the island." Looking at Oberyn, she could see why as there were varying rips and tears on his attire with several cuts that'll need stitching soon enough or else they'll get infected. "Though I had some help at that time."
She was quite curious about who he was referring to. That was until her gaze landed upon the several blonde teenagers running around the deck to help some of the crew out. "Him?"
*Chuckles* "Yes, him." Seeing her bewildered look, the Dornish prince shook his head as he walked beside her to help follow his young companion's actions. "And it's got quite the story behind what happened beloved."
"That I'll be sure to hear quite well."
"Of course… Hell, I still need to hear his story on how he got to Old Valyria in the first place."
-End Chapter-
Brightroar: The ancestral Valyrian sword was purchased by the Lannister Kings of old before the Doom of Valyria. As it was said, they paid their weight in gold, the same amount to raise an army, to acquire the famous metal before crafting it to their liking. Years later, Tommen II of House Lannister left with a fleet and the family sword to go to Valyria to plunder its wealth and knowledge for the glory of his home, but they never returned. Years later, Gerion Lannister, youngest brother of Tywin Lannister, sought out the blade and went with a ship of his own, but no one has ever found or heard from him since… Until recently Naruto Uzumaki and Oberyn Martell found him in Valyria. Subsequently the Hand's Tourney held for Ned Stark is what reunites the lost sword with it's rightful owners as well as Gerion with his family.
Farron Great Sword/Dagger: Originally owned by the first Valyrian Watcher of the Abyss, legionnaire protectors of the Valyrian Empire. The Watcher modeled his sword with inspiration towards the man he served under as a squire, Artorias Stark, while his dagger resembles a wolf's claw. In the Doom of Valyria, the legionnaires were destroyed and the first sword/dagger of the group was cursed. Infecting those with the abyss itself. Tommen II came across the Valyrian steel weapon and tried to take it as his own in his pursuit of plundering the ruins of Old Valyria. But this was his downfall as the weapon cursed him and others that followed him to fight each other until gods knew when. When Gerion Lannister arrived to pursue Brightroar, he ended up cursed as well as he fought his ancestor to acquire the family sword. It is now cleansed after Tommen's defeat and is currently wielded by Naruto Uzumaki. And like the original owner, the Konoha shinobi will protect those that are precious to him, even protecting the whole realm of Westeros later in his life. It'll be renamed into something else once Naruto thinks of a better name for it. Unique feature on the weapon pair is that when coating enough chakra onto them, they'll light up on fire as what they originally had years ago with magic.